Donald Trump embarked Tuesday on the second leg of an unorthodox "victory tour," promising tough policies to put the U.S. economy first and boasting of securing a US$50 billion Japanese investment to create 50,000 jobs.

A US$1.65 billion facility will be built at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho to handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships, the Navy and U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday.

A state prosecutor's office in Pennsylvania was among hundreds of thousands of victims of a now-shuttered international cybercrime operation, paying nearly US$1,400 in a bitcoin ransom to free up its infected computer network, authorities disclosed Monday.